Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About that time one of the feeblest teams in big-time competition was the Blue Devil aggregation of mighty, tobacco-rich Duke, which, having re-entered football in 1920 after a lapse of 25 years, had changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke...
...squeezed Captain Trolley out of a rich mine and married his girl. When Trolley's beautiful, talented son killed a man for striking his horse, it was the Colonel's posse that lynched him. On that day Captain Trolley declared there was no God, only the Devil in the person of the Colonel...
...What the devil do gum manufacturers do? Mr. Bowman [TIME, Sept. 13] drinks beer in a topper and a bare chest. Is this the custom? What does...
...Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that's C. J. [Connick] telling you the window is no good." In a recent job, a Spanish War window given by the widow of Secretary of War Russell Alexander Alger (1897-99) to the Grosse Point Memorial Church near Detroit...
...High School) showed that at least some educators thought some films had some educational value. To show their adolescent charges how the world wags, the Progressive Education Association prepared for classroom screenings of Winter set, Black Legion, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Informer, Fury, The Devil Is a Sissy, Men in White...